Meeting Agenda : 2022-03-07 (Display/Markup Elements)

[eemeli]

Unicode MessageFormat WG - Weekly Meeting

Start time: 18:30 CET / 9:30 PT

Call : Link

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This weekly meeting will focus on display/markup elements, which have been discussed previously in #26 and #186. They are rather variably supported in our current spec proposals:

• Eemeli: syntax / data model / resolution / error handling
• Staś: Not directly supported.
• Mihai: open/close/standalone placeholders

Questions that may be answered by this discussion:

1. Should display/markup elements be supported by the spec?
2. Should standalone elements be supported?
3. Should start/end pairs of elements be supported?
4. Should other connected sets of elements be supported? For example, a start/middle/end set of elements.
5. Should elements be separate from placeholders/formatting functions?
6. Should elements be used to mark up messages for formatting? For example, to indicate that a span should be styled bold.
7. Should elements be used to mark up messages for localisers? For example, to indicate that a span should not be translated.
8. Should some elements be supported by default?

If you have additional questions in mind, please post them in comments below. I'll send a poll about these to the mailing list in the next few days, to get a bit of a baseline on where we're starting from.